Who does that anymore anyway? The mainstream is all just repackaged AP stories and press releases.

Anyway, they're not worse than traditional media.

Anyone who fell for this whole idea is getting what he deserves.

I'm against gratuitous computerization. Not because I hate computers. Because I hate gratuitousness.

Stopping at a crossing is inefficient.

And the point of high speed is efficiency.

Truth: both sides are propaganda and always have been.

No philanthropist funds anything for free. They're looking for propaganda outlets.

Before you get too outraged, consider this: news outlets, including local ones, have always been propaganda outlets.

(Want to know about the fire last night down the block? Ask somebody down the block. Reporters know nothing.)

The watchmen do not police themselves, not even secretly.

don't want us to fly so much.

In fact, I may be off my meds or something, but I think this whole discussion is about them.

Also, you seem to be agreeing with them. Maybe don't do that.

Cliff Clavin raises a mug to you.

Don't worry about it. Unless you intend to put that code into production.

on account of I was poor.

There's a whole world out there. Sights to see, other cultures to experience. And there are people who would deny that world to us... but not to themselves.

They want to under-privilege us.

Travel may or may not broaden the mind, but staying home will certainly narrow it.

This way we all have our freedom, and the resulting complexity is managed.

We can all go our own way, and we can all navigate relative to each other.

Anyone who is just starting out, or who doesn't want paid tech support, can install the reference distro,

If and when this fails to meet your needs, go shopping for a fork.

If something goes wrong, try it again with the reference distro before posting questions online. This way you can narrow down the source of the problem. The reference distro will end up getting many eyes and become well debugged. The forks will be at a disadvantage there, but then there's paid support.

If a fork is buggy, the reference can serve as a "safe mode."

Go ahead. You first.

They feel no pain. They just pass the costs along to the taxpayer.

a while back, and thinking this sort of thing ought to be confined to private networks.

Screw the Internet of Damn Things.